Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Fallcrest Composite Rough

Not that anyone's clamoring for this, but since it'll take me a while to clean up this drawing I thought I'd post it just in case someone wanted to run a party through in the meantime.

As I pull together the various elements of this Fallcrest drawing, a few thoughts occur:

Who the hell is going to climb up and down a flight of stairs 15 stories high just to get their groceries? In the rain? No one, that's who. So I put in an elevator for the Porter's Guild to run.

The original map has an awful lot of rubble and tumble-down walls. Now it's true that humans are lazy alcoholics, but it's been 110 years since the Bloodspears rumbled through! Don't you think someone might've organized a clean-up in the intervening decades? I do, so I patched the walls and cannibalized the rubble for more buildings.

Marklehay having a personal forest within the confines of the city walls seems a bit odd. I've rerouted the approach to the Keep; the woods are smaller now and may end up just being ornamental.

I also have a second "personalities" post half written, a few crude maps, some PC sketches that a couple of my players made, and some brief descriptions of the city's major neighborhoods, but I haven't posted any of that stuff yet.

Wow, I have DMed some players in fallcrest once. They did not stay long, but if I and they had this as a visible reference, I think they would have thought it to be much more interesting that they did.

This drawing really highlights the more fantastic side of Fallcrest. Great job!

I love it! It's so much nicer to look at a 3-D image like this than a simple top-down map with icons.

I was looking at your elevator and thinking it would take a tremendous amount of force to raise the loaded platform and then I thought hey, it could be powered by a waterwheel in the water. A lever would either raise and lower the wheel or divert water through a channel to power it to raise the platform!

Also, there should be a way to carry boats over the falls. Maybe something like the platform but with ropes and hooks?

Not that you need to put all that on the map, of course! Thanks for the great work.